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Going to LCD from CRT
Metallikat
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Soo, my beloved ViewSonic 19" CRT monitor is starting to go on me. I notice it tends to shift into blue colors (as if the entire screen had a very light blue film over it). The colors are no longer any where near as bright either, and some games with darker graphics require me to close the shades and turn off the lights to be able to make out anything.
I'm guessing I'll make the jump to LCD, but I have absolutely no experience with them whatsoever. The one thing that holds me back is the native resolution thing. I dislike the idea of not being able to go outside certain resolutions without the image being stretched and ugly.
So, with that in mind, any recommendations on good LCD's for me to check out? Price isn't a problem, but I'd like something at least 19".
I'm guessing I'll make the jump to LCD, but I have absolutely no experience with them whatsoever. The one thing that holds me back is the native resolution thing. I dislike the idea of not being able to go outside certain resolutions without the image being stretched and ugly.
So, with that in mind, any recommendations on good LCD's for me to check out? Price isn't a problem, but I'd like something at least 19".
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if you mean what I think you mean you can set it to not stretch. in the Nvidia control panel
I would imagine ATI has a similar setting
I think he's talking about the quality drop out when going outside the native resolution, not just aspect ratio being off.
And really... how often do you change your screen resolution? How many times do you think to yourself "Well that was fun, but let's try 1280x720 today! Party!"?
Like, it's not that big of a deal, really. The resolution you're stuck at is probably going to be a fairly good one, and games these days have about a billion resolutions to choose from so you can find yours.
Really it's not at all a problem having the native resolution, you just need to know what it is for when you're running a game to get the highest quality. There is a noticeable drop off in quality when outside it but again... how many times does that actually come up?
Like mentioned you can always set it to not stretch or you could possibly get a 4:3 LCD monitor. I believe they may still make some 20" or 22" 4:3 models, but they might be hard to find.
Unfortunately, the LCD is hell on my eyes. Granted, I have a condition so experiences may differ.
Depends on the game. Worst case is a 4:3 game with no possibility to make widescreen so you either get black bars on the sides (or stretched if you prefer). For some games with lots of info on the screen like World of Warcraft widescreen is a huge improvement.
So there is no real problem with old stuff and new stuff is mostly made assuming you have widescreen.
Hell, I even play the Starcraft on my widescreen 22" (1680x1050 native), and at first is weird, but after a few minutes you forget about it.
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
Ugh, I can't not see that stuff. You can usually enable letterboxing, that's how I much prefer to run old games widescreen. It sucks on a Mac because the OS gives you no control over the scaling method though.
I think it really depends on the person and the game. Certain things just will not scale well at all. Going back to starcraft, I remember someone saying that they basically barfed when trying to play it on a 1920x1200. I don't have a problem with it on a 1080p TV, but that's probably because the picture is ridiculously large.
Acer 20" 5ms Widescreen
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009126
Samsung 22" 2ms Widescreen
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001268
I've also heard that it's a horrible, horrible idea to buy LCD's from newegg as they don't offer any dead pixel policies, your much better off buying locally so you can take it in and exchange it if you get any
Macs will use video card scaling if available and give both stretched and non-stretched options. The only thing you can't do (without rebooting into Windows) is display the video at original resolution letterboxed on all sides.
Nah, what I mean is, if I pick 1024x768 in Warcraft 3 on my MacBook Pro, it is stretched thanks to some dumbass at blizzard. So I may as well just play at 1440x900 because even though the game will be displayed stretched, at least it won't be blurry. Whereas in Windows I can use the driver control panel to force letterboxing of all non-widescreen resolutions (I just mean proportional scaling, not letterboxing on all sides so I can have the pleasure of playing on a postage stamp).
I know Macs don't use the same type of registry shinnanogans that windows use, but in windows you can registry edit the screen to the exact size you want (for warcraft 3). It will make anything that's 2D, such as text and most of the UI, scale perfectly, while the 3D stuff will stretch.